[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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What’s Inside the Ground
Whatever gives pleasure is the fragrance/ of the Friend. Whatever makes us wonder// comes from that light. What’s inside the/ ground begins to sprout because you spilled// wine there. What dies in autumn comes up/ in spring because this way of saying no// becomes in spring your praise song yes.
Rumi
I love the thought that wonder comes from the light of friendship’s fragrance. I love the thought that things grow from spilled wine. I love the thought that fall is no and spring is yes. That makes sense to me in the way that fish are born knowing how to swim, butterflies know when to emerge from their cocoon, and the sun rises and sets. There is a perpetual yes and no to all that. What else comes from that light, spilled wine, and yes and no? Gratitude? Humility? Compassion? Grace? Maybe those are the ingredients of wonder itself. Maybe friendship moves between earth and air and sweetly breathes and enters the world as wonder.
About Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
